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    are so many reasons as to why it’s such a significant thing to teach children in school as well as new American citizens about our past. When it comes to the era of Japanese -American internment camps it is a positive thing to ensure that history doesn’t repeat itself. As well as their being knowledge of empathy of social injustices that occur which unquestionably defined what Japanese-American internment camps were. Summed up‚ it was a devastating tragic event which deserves to be told to others

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    Cultural Metaphors

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    Cultural Metaphors Culture is a behavior that consists of several critical elements‚ such as language‚ religion‚ race and ethnicity‚ clothing and politics. Culture is what one does in his/her daily life. In order to understand others‚ we must first keep in mind that every culture carries its own set of values and assumptions. Culture is an evolving‚ ever changing civilization‚ which includes several different groups of people. For immigrants‚ America is a land of opportunity; for others it is just

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    101 Characteristics of Americans/American Culture To help you compare and contrast what you observe of American culture and your own‚ mark the similarities and differences between your culture and what you have read about in this book. 1. America is enormous: the third largest country in the world with a population of more than 300 million people. 2. Americans come in all colors‚ have all types of religions‚ and speak many languages from all over the world. 3. Americans are extremely independent

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    Garden

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    Action Verbs  Action verbs are something that a person or thing can do may be used alone as the main verb of a sentence e.g. run‚ jump‚ reach‚ swim‚ walked‚ fell etc.  Action verbs can also be actions you can’t see such as ’thought’ or ’wanted’  Action verbs can be time-telling verbs. They tell when something takes place - in the present‚ in the future or in the past List of action verbs starting with A Abstract Accelerate Accommodate Accomplish Accumulate Achieve Acquire Act Activate

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    Asian-American Culture

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    Part A 1) Diaspora space is an area individual’s move to that is not where they are originally from or identify as their own. It is culture as a site of travel (Clifford). Space is more than just a place of living; it can be divided into many components such as place‚ race‚ bodies and knowledge production (Patel‚ Lecture 2). 2) Power- knowledge nexus/relation is a theory that’s says knowledge isn’t just about data‚ instead it is about generating information to gain power‚ they work hand in hand‚

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    best on work but suffers from insomnia and other mental illnesses. One scene that sticks out is when the protagonist‚ frank is talking to his coworker about how materialized and fake American culture has become‚ which‚ in all honestly‚ it’s true. If you look at America today‚ almost everything in the American culture has been materialized to the point‚ where as Frank says‚ “I just want it all to stop. I mean‚ nobody talks about anything anymore. They just regurgitate everything that they see on TV

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    in the Holocaust. The number of Japanese-Americans who were killed in the internment camps is unknown but over 127‚00 were put into the labor camps and about 7% of them died from hunger‚ dehydration or other unnatural causes such as executions. Japanese-Americans and Jews were both excluded of citizenship for either their nationality or religion. Jews were put in these concentration camps from 1933 to around 1945 by Hitler and the German army. Japanese-Americans were put in the internment camps

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    In Without Due Process‚ Japanese Americans share their stories about their experience of incarceration‚ day-to-day life in the camps‚ feelings about the internment‚ as well as what it means to be Japanese American in this country. The reaction by government officials in this time period had strained Japanese Americans way of life. It also forced society to become discriminatory and racially biased against their fellow Americans.

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    In Gail Tsukiyama’s The Samurai’s Garden Stephen is sent from his homeland in China to Japan to recover from tuberculosis. In his journey to recovery he begins to learn from the culture of the Japanese. Stephen soon discovers that Matsu‚ the family’s servant‚ shows quintessential characteristics of Japanese culture. Matsu’s traits can often be compared to those of medieval Japanese warriors. Throughout Samurai’s Garden‚ Matsu shows characteristics of a true samurai. One of the characteristics present

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    Challenges of Interpersonal Communication within the Japanese Culture One way of defining interpersonal communication is to compare it to other forms of communication. In so doing‚ one would examine how many people are involved‚ how physically close they are to one another‚ how many sensory channels are used‚ and the feedback provided. Interpersonal communication differs from other forms of communication in that there are few participants involved‚ the people who interact are in close physical proximity

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